glaciofluvial

Meltwater from ice

Glaciofluvial describes landforms and sediments created by meltwater streams flowing from glaciers.

The water carries and deposits sand, gravel, and other debris, shaping distinctive geological features: glaciofluvial deposits, glaciofluvial plains.

The term combines glacial and fluvial (river-related) processes, used primarily in geology and physical geography.

meltwater

jökulhlaup

Catastrophic glacial meltwater release

landforms

outwash

Glacier meltwater sediment

  • eskerSerpentine glacial gravel deposit
  • drumlinStreamlined glacial hill
  • moraineGlacier-deposited debris pile
sediments

outwash

Glacier meltwater sediment

  • gravelLoose small rock fragments
  • sandFine rock particles
  • siltWaterborne earth particles

clay · till · erratics · clast

science

quaternary

Fourth-order or four-bonded

isostasy · geomorphology · sedimentology

Categories
Opposites
geological process type

glaciofluvialaeolian

Caused by moving air

volcanic · glacial · fluvial · marine · tectonic

temperature/climate regime

glaciofluvialdesert

To leave behind completely

arid · tropical · pyroclastic · hydrothermal · volcanic

Family

glacial, glacier, glaciers, glaciation, alluvial, glaciology, glaciologist, subglacial, interglacial

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